"I was asked recently by a significant magazine for women over 40 to pose with a cougar, and I refused to do it because I felt it was insulting. They took away the cover." Cattrall finds the term sexist. [Extra]

Donatella Versace, on a young Naomi Campbell's backstage behavior: "On the eve of the show she would turn to me showing an outfit on a hanger and ask: 'Who is wearing this?…I want that one!' And actually any dress on her looked brilliant and perfect, so I would tell her, 'Yes, keep it for the show, it's yours!' The morning after I remember Gianni would come to me asking if all those looks were originally for Naomi. I would always say, 'Sure, why?' And Gianni used to reply, 'Well, I was right to give it to Naomi! She looks gorgeous!' The only problem after that was that I had to face the anger of the other girls who were left with fewer looks." [TDB]

Dov Charney is downplaying the implications of American Apparel's dismal quarterly results: a 10% fall in year-on-year same-store sales, a growing $17.6 million loss, a stock price that fell 41% to a near-historic low, a de-listing warning from the New York Stock Exchange, and the possibility that it won't be able to make key payments on its $100 million mountain of debt. "It's so silly — we're a flourishing, growing company," says the company founder. "Our company in the past has been through these types of issues before, and it's never presented us with any particular difficulties in running our business." Okay then. [LATimes]

Cathy Horyn, on Michelle Obama's state dinner dress, by Peter Soronen: "This time people seemed startled by her full-on glamour. Reaction on blogs has been generally enthusiastic, though someone on the Huffington Post referred to her look as "Lady Gaga Alejandro Style." Not sure what that means, exactly. Lady Gaga is like a sticker that be applied to anything the least bit sparkly or bouffant." [On The Runway]

A leaked still from the "Alejandro" video, directed by Steven Klein, strongly recalls Klein's shoot with Lady Gaga for the August, 2009, issue of W. Rumors point to the inclusion of Lara Stone, the model from the shoot, although she's not pictured in the still. Fashionista notes: "We wouldn't be opposed to a Steven Klein's Greatest Hits theme at all; we just didn't think Lady Gaga would be the one to do it. Though 'Telephone' was a Tarantino right down to the Pussy Wagon. Maybe Gaga's new mantra is celebrating the artistic vision of others?" [Fashionista]

One year when he was interning for Vogue under the late, great Diana Vreeland, André Leon Talley had to spend Christmas away from home for the first time. He went over to a friend's vacated apartment, and moped around eating the only thing he could find — a can of Hershey's chocolate syrup — when he got a hilarious phonecall from his grandmother. "I'm sending your father right now," she said. Talley says he replied, "I'm fine. Mrs. Vreeland said I can't go home." His grandmother shot back: "No no no, your father is coming in the car, overnight. You're coming home...I want you home because I know exactly what you're doing." He said, "What is that?" "You're sleeping with a white woman!"[Racked]

Pearl Lowe, designer, musician, and mother to model Daisy Lowe, has suffered a miscarriage. She was to give birth to her fifth child in the fall, and last month said she and husband Danny Goffey were "over the moon." [Telegraph]

"We approached it as problem solving: how to come up with an untricky way of doing dresses," says Tagliapietra. [NYTimes]

Lubov Azria, wife and business partner of Max, says the company they run is not for sale. [WWD]

Karolina Kurkova has been working out with Tracy Anderson — Madonna's jettisoned trainer. You'd work out too if every time you didn't people wrote shit like this. It's funny, the McDean photograph really brings out how much Kurkova looks like Raquel Zimmerman. [W]

Lots of designers, including Helmut Lang, Zac Posen, and Valentino, are using inket printers and software to create digital prints. Like those watercolor-inspired prints that are everywhere lately. [WSJ]

A British sporting goods chain is still stocking padded bras in size 28AA, which the Sun says is small enough to fit 7-8 year olds. "Children will have a sex life if they're encouraged to dress that way," said a 25-year-old mother of two. [Sun]

Kate Moss, the Gleek. The supermodel is reportedly "obsessed" with Glee. She thinks Puck is the hottest character. [Grazia]